I love music.  I enjoy it sooooo much.  I like music that makes me feel good.  But I also have a music ministry to and I have to honest in that ministry.  People listen to the sound and the hooks of the music I write and they enjoy themselves so much.  What bothers me is that they aren't getting the real message behind the sound.  "We be churchin" is a celebration of God's love.  Its a pretty much an over-the-top praise dance that gets outta hand and will stay that way.  But the truth behind the celebration gets lost in the beat.  Its a testimony that I used to be an absolute MESS.  I was deeply hurt inside after years of events that I hadn't dealt with.  And hurt people hurt other people.  I was chained up in my sin and struggled with thoughts and near attempts of suicide.  I trashed nearly every relationship I had because of how damaged I was inside.  When God showed me how much he loved me and pulled me in close to him to cover me in his love, everything changed.  I'm not perfect.  I STILL have my struggles, but I am NOT what I used to be.  And I PRAISE God for that.  I Celebrate his love for me.  That's why we be praisin'. That's why We Be Churchin'

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Curt

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Posting the lyric video today.  I will admit that I am nervous about this song because everyone is captivated by the haunting melody.  My fear is that I could possibly be giving them watered down Word like I always rail against.  Let me clarify… I am concerned, since this could possibly be someone's only exposure to the word of God, is this strong enough to direct them to Christ.  I hear people say “I like that beat”, but does it speak to your spirit???  But maybe I should just rest on 1 Cor 3:6-7 “I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.”  Maybe what I am doing is not bring people to full realization of Christ.  Maybe all I'm doing is planting a seed.  God will give the increase.  So I will rest in that.  

Stay Prayed UP!

Curt

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I have been hearing and reading about casting down imaginations for as long as I can remember. 2 Cor 10:5 “ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ…” I don't think it clicked until today. There are times when thoughts come into my head that I have always struggled against.  They have always had the power to lead me into places that I have never wanted to be in.  It always seemed that I was powerless to stop.  I always wondered why God wouldn't stop this for me? Why wouldn't the most powerful being in existence not put this to bed once and for all.  The answer is rather simplistic:  He gave me the power to do it.  Why would he do something for me that I can do - potentially handicapping me for the rest of my life?  The Bible says in Prov 8:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof”.  And that means I can speak life to something or death to something.  Either way I'll eat the fruit of what comes out of my mouth.  I am learning that when those thoughts come to my mind, they are suggestions that didn't come from me.  And I have to speak death to those thoughts - “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus” or “I bind you in the name of Jesus.” and I take control over what's going on in my head.  I speak life to the goodness of God and the power of God… and I am enjoying the fruit!

Went to the doc today to check out my shoulder.  Pranged it in a fall a few weeks ago.  It hurts but I'm only speaking healing to myself.  I won't speak all that I've heard other people go through.  I'm healed and that's all that I will accept.  

Only a few more weeks and we drop “we be churchin”. I'm truly excited about how weill this song will do.  I'm excited about people praising God to a song I wrote.  I'm just up for this.  God is good!  I'm still waiting to get the master back.  I'm a bit nervous, but I will only speak that it will be beyond what even I expected.  I will apply it to the lyric video and then prep to the shoot the real one.  I have a milion ideas bouncing around my head, but I still don't have the concept yet.  I know that God will give me what is perfect.  I know that God will give me what needs to heard and seen.  ‘til then, you guys keep me in your prayers!

Stay Prayed Up

Curt

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I have been disscussing the creative process leading to the 4/24/3023 relase of We Be Chuchin'.   I'm just trying to give a look inside my head… not sure if that's a good idea or not.  LOL

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Curt

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I slip sometimes.  I make mistakes.  I'm learning the key to this is not to live in my mistakes.  There are things that I used to do that I could easily fall back into.  I'm sure easily is the word… more like I could fall back into, but they wouldn't be comfortable for me anymore.  Its no longer who I am.  Its no longer what I am.  It would be like losing a lot of weight and then putting on clothes you wore when you were heavier.  They don't fit.  They look bad on you.  If you wore them, you couldn't move comfortably in them anymore.  You'd be struggling to keep the pants up.  The shirt would look you were wearing a tent.  The past no longer fits. You'll simply have to leave it all behind and keep moving forward.  Like Paul said in Philipians 3:13 - 14 “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus…” We all make mistakes. We just have to keep pressing.  Keep moving.  Keep reaching.  Stop wearing a past that no longer fits. 

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Curt

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I finished the lyric video (yay!).  I keep hearing in my spirit that I needed to get it done this weekend.  It was grueling, but I hope you guys enjoy it.  I'll release it as soon as I get the mastered audio back from the “Jhedi Mixmaster”.   I'm looking forward to this.  I believe this song is going to reach some people.  I'm already feeling this weird sensation that the next song must be stronger.  Not stronger musically, but stronger spiritually.  This song is praise, quite simply.  The song absolutely has to be strong spiritual meat.  But even as I write this, I'm dismissing that thought.  God gave me this one, he'll give me the next.   And it will say EXACTLY what it wants him to say, so now I'll relax on that.  I'm just gonna chill 'til God hooks me up with the next.  

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Curt

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Been recording videos to chronical the steps of the journey.  A few of them are up already.  I've been trying to keep people in the loop on what we are doing and how this is actually working out.  I am greatly appreciate of the people that I have gotten to work with.  I've been trying to chronical the vibe of this piece and the reactions to it.  So far 99% of what I've gotten is positive - which bothers me a little.  Either God is using this piece to reach people that wouldn't nornally come to the church or listen to the church sound… or I got something that appeals to the senses and doesn't edify.  And if the latter is the case, I'll scrap it all right now.  The song speaks to me.  I believe it honors the presence of God by glorifying the changes he's made in me.  I'm publishing it like man delivered from the legion of devils (Mark 5 1 -20). He told everyone as instructed by Jesus what good things God has done for him.  The song celebrates the deliverence that God has graced me with, the good things he's done for me.  I want that to be clear because the Bible says “if our Gospel is hid, it is hid to them that are lost…”. I want this to be clear.  I want this to be plain.  And I am sure that all the paranoia that I'm having with this song could all be from the enemy trying to shut this down.  But God has the final say.  

I hear the “prosperity message” often.  And I know some wolves have highjacked the message and corrupted it for their own purposes.  The “you-put-money-in-my-pocket-and-God-will-bless-you” crowd.  I know there are wolves involved.  I've been at a church and a pastor that I respected was going through his speel and I heard the spirit of God say “WHAT he is saying is right…. WHY he's saying it is wrong!”  And I didn't sow into his ministry that day.  I understood that he was preaching that message out of fear that the bills weren't going to get paid that month.  The message has merit.  It has power.  It has purpose.  But you HAVE to hear from God before you give ANYTHING.  

There are several passages that the pastors usually throw at the body of Christ.  One in particular is Luke 6:38 

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you…”

But that message was about giving to the other churches that were in need.  The ones who at the time were suffering to the point of starvation.  They were doing this to support the ministry, to take care of the body of Christ.  It wasn't so Pastor could get a Rolls Royce.  Jesus was talking in this instance about the laws of reciprication, about how what you put out comes back to you.  But he was talking about everything.  Love, peace, money, compassion - what you give out comes back to you pressed down, shaken together will men give you what you gave out.  The gift you gave from the heart to the homeless family because they had need will weigh more in the kingdom of heavan than the gift you blessed pastor with.  And I'm NOT saying don't bless your pastor.  What I AM saying is hear from the word of God first.  

I believe in the law of giving and receiving.  I've seen it work time and time again in my own life.  God blesses when you are faithful to what he has told you.  Hear from God.  And do only that.   

Stay Prayed Up

Curt

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I guess I have been spoiled by being able to create quickly.  The faucet in my mind (spirit) turns on and a flood pours out.  sometimes.  And there are days when it drips out and I quit and move on to something else.   The result is a ton of incomplete musical thoughts and ideas that I have no idea how to finish.  a moment of tranparency.  Got a pile of unfinished crap. I really have to be patient… learn to be more patient.  Who knows my best song to date might be lying in that pile somewhere.  

Stay Prayed Up

Curt

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